If you think that Snowden ought to have gone through channels, consider this.

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80. According to Snowden via Greenwald, 70% of our national intel budget is spent in the private sector,

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with the largest concentration of cyber power on the planet at the inersection of the Baltimore Parkway and Maryland Route 32, a business park down the road from the NSA, where all of the NSA's major contractors, from Booz to SAIC to Northrop Grumman, carry out surveilance and intel.

These corporate partnerships extend beyond intel and defense to include the largest, most important Internet corporations and telecoms on the planet.

Such work is in the agency's missions of "Defense (Protect US Telecommuncations and Cumputer Systems Against Exploitations)" and "Offense (Intercept and Exploit Foreign Signals)." Greenwald's book shows the document that shows services supplied by such corporations and managed by the NSA's Special Sources Operations, the division that oversees corporate partnerships. The SSO, Snowden claims, is the "crown jewel" of the organization.

BLARNEY, FAIRVIEW, OAKSTAR AND STROMBREW are some prograoms overseen by this SSO within its Corporate Partner Access portfolio.

These are industries. This is their espionage system.

Your claiming there isn't any industrial espionage doesn't make it so.